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Bruce Tift on Freedom, Open Mind, Psychotherapy, Buddhism, and Neurosis
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The Impossible Experience of No-Self
Trying to have the experience of no-self is still motivated by probably a fundamental aggression towards experience. It's impossible I don't agree with that approach because like I said if Vajrayana approach is more about the transparency of relative experience rather than getting rid of it so instead of no- self What makes sense to me is more transparency in our experiencing of self or Vajrayana jargon We could say appearance emptiness meaning the appearance is there And simultaneously there's some increasing confidence of no essential nature no objective existence With that appearance so it's vivid appearance and that's what we have to work with. Some spiritual practitioners have this idea that somehow the ego is bad and they're supposed to conquer the
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